Overview
- A Qatar Airways flight left Bali at about 12:30 a.m. Friday carrying Sandiford, 69, and fellow British inmate Shahab Shahabadi to London under a repatriation deal.
- The transfer followed an October agreement signed by Indonesian legal affairs minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra and UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper.
- Officials described Sandiford as seriously ill; she appeared in a wheelchair during a Kerobokan prison handover and did not speak.
- Britain's deputy ambassador said both returnees will be governed by UK law on arrival, with immediate health assessments and any required treatment or rehabilitation.
- Sandiford was sentenced to death in 2013 after 4.8 kg of cocaine was found in her luggage in 2012; the reciprocal deal allows Indonesia to seek returns of its nationals, though none have been requested.